Who sponsors SURFIN CHILI?
WE DO! Unlike many newer teams, SURFIN’ CHILI has been around since 1990. We have no corporate sponsorship, no department slush fund, and we fund all events by contribution. We are doing this for the love of the cookoff and it keeps our voice free and untainted! • That’s a cool booth, how did you get it like that? Thank you. SURFIN’ CHILI has the only approved 2-story booth in the cookoff. Any future 2-story booths require prior approval. We like to call that the SURFIN’ CHILI RULE. (Another example of excellent NASA engineering talent.) • Have any other rules been passed at a chili cookoff based on what Surfin’ Chili did? Yes, back in 1991 we had our “Scud Missile” water balloon launcher at the Rockwell chili cookoff. For the 1992 cookoff, they included a rule which stated: “No object may be propelled through the air or on the ground that could cause a hazard to the team cooking areas, participants, or the public. This includes, but is not limited to, activities such as “Scud” water b
